Hubble Sheds New Light On NASA’s DART Asteroid Impact Target

Mark Carreau October 20, 2022
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li (PSI); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale
HOUSTON—New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revealed an unexpected second trail of debris emerging from Dimorphos, the asteroid target for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impact on Sept. 26. The blow was intended to demonstrate a strategy for altering the...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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